Keywords: Risk management

Expert Opinion of the French National Agency for Health and Safety of Food, Environmental and Occupational Health: "l’évaluation du risque de morsure par les chiens"

"Evaluations comportementales des chiens susceptibles d'être dangereux" published by the Anses committee on animal health and welfare.

Published in 2020

Opinion concluding that producing a designation list of particular  breeds and racial types fails to reduce the risk that these breeds will bite. It identifies risk factors for biting behaviours in dogs and human exposure to bites, discusses the behavioural assessment of dogs, and proposes areas for research and delivery of training to reduce risk of biting.

Document Types: Opinions

Animal categories:Canine

Keywords:Risk management, Human-animal relationships

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Behaviour of smaller and larger dogs: effects of training methods, inconsistency of owner behaviour and level of engagement in activities with the dog.

Christine Arhant, Hermann Bubna-Littitz, Angela Bartels, Andreas Futschik, Josef Troxler

Published in 2019

Scientific paper showing that small dogs that are frequently punished by their owners are more anxious and fearful, which could reinforce fear-related aggression.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories:Canine

Keywords:Risk management, Human-animal relationships

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Can Aggression in Dogs Be Elicited Through the Use of Electronic Pet Containment Systems?

Richard Polsky

Published in 2010

Scientific paper investigating the causes of attacks on humans by dogs wearing electric collars who have moved beyond the collar's area of control.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories:Canine

Keywords:Risk management, Restraint equipment, Human-animal relationships

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Risk Factors for Dog Relinquishment to a Los Angeles Municipal Animal Shelter

Emily D. Dolan, Jamie Scotto, Margaret Slater Emily Weiss

Published in 2015

Scientific article identifying lack of financial means, owner stress, and lack of knowledge of existing support systems as major reasons why dogs are abandoned at shelters in a poor Los Angeles neighborhood

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories:Canine

Keywords:Societal issues, Risk management, Living environment, Human-animal relationships

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Animal Welfare and Resistance to Disease: Interaction of Affective States and the Immune System

Sandra Düpjan, Marian Stamp Dawkins

Published in 2022

A perspective article reviewing the scientific literature on the links between the brain, the gut microbiome, immunity and animal welfare. It highlights the importance of good welfare as a way to prevent disease, and sets out the mechanisms by which high levels of welfare can directly affect disease resistance.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: All animals

Keywords:Risk management, Human-animal relationships, Pathogen transfer

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Risk factors associated with the welfare of grazing dairy cows in spring-calving, hybrid pasture-based systems

R.E. Crossley, E.A.M. Bokkers, N. Browne, K. Sugrue, E. Kennedy, B. Engel, M. Conneely

Published in 2022

Scientific paper identifying 14 risk factors associated with one or more welfare indicators during the grazing season on hybrid dairy farms. Many of the risk factors were related to the period spent indoors, suggesting that the potential effects of housing management on welfare persist into the grazing period.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Risk management, Housing, Livestock farming system, Welfare indicators

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Final report of an audit of Austria carried out from 26 to 30 April 2021 in order to evaluate the protection of the welfare of laying hens at all stages of production

DG SANTE

Published in 2022

DG SANTE audit report concluding that the Austrian system of official controls on animal welfare of laying hens is satisfactory, with two possible improvements, one on the procedures for verifying and assessing the effectiveness of the controls, the other on the creation of a document trail for the controls.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords: Societal issues, Risk management

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French Assemblée nationale: Written answer to question n°40299: Abandon des animaux domestiques

Question: Mrs Sylvie Tolmont (Socialists and allies - Sarthe). Answer: Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Published in 2022

Réponse à une question portant sur l’urgence de prendre des mesures pour lutter contre l’abandon d’animaux de compagnie.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Canines, Felines

Keywords:Societal issues, Risk management, Human-animal relationships

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Le rôle de l’État dans l’encadrement de la génétique des carnivores domestiques : propositions d’évolution

Francis Geiger, Marylène Nau

Published in 2015

Expert report proposing that the State should concentrate on legal requirements and outlining a partnership project where all stakeholders would shape the canine and feline sectors' use of genetics, putting science at the heart of selection policies.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Canines, Felines

Keywords:Societal issues, Risk management, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Psychiatric disorders

La gouvernance de la santé animale : entre biosécurité et bien public mondial

Muriel Figuié

Published in 2021

Scientific review of policies on animal health showing that they combine what are sometimes contradictory goals of public health, agricultural economics, international trade and animal welfare, and that this subject is now treated as a biosecurity matter and a global public good, with the emergence of the One Health concept.

Document Types: Scientific review

Keywords:Societal issues, Risk management, Human-animal relationships

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